Partners

The Talon Partner program is based on a competency model, where certified Talon Partners are incentivized to invest and train their employees on Talon products, solutions, and services. This allows Talon to align its investments and resources to channel partners for focus on specific or broad solutions to meet customer needs.

Support

Talon offers a wide variety of resources to help our customers with their Talon FAST™ deployments. Available 24/7 to get the most out of your distributed file services infrastructure. Go to Support Portal »

Talon FAST™ Product Requirements

Talon's FAST™ software can be deployed on customers' existing hardware infrastructure in virtually every case, as long as they meet a few base-level requirements. There's no need to upgrade hardware before beginning to utilize FAST™.

* Depending on customer needs, the Cache Volume (D:) on an Edge installation can be extended is only restricted by the limitations of the Windows NTFS file system. Correct sizing of the Cache Volume is important: recommended size for the Cache is 2x the active data set (purging)

Virtualization Requirements

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows Server 2016 (Hyper-V)

VMWare vSphere ESX(i) 5.5+, 6.x

CPU Cycles must be pre-allocated, set as Reserved / Static

Memory has to guaranteed, set as Reserved / Static

Hard Disks must be configured as “Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed” or "Fixed Disk"

For more detail around the requirements in virtual environments, including resource reservations and storage provisioning, please consult the Talon FAST™ user guide available from the software download portal (needs registration).

Cloud Deployments (i.e. Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS)

For best performance in public cloud environments, the following requirements must be met when deploying Talon FAST™ software in the cloud: